Ed Protzman isn't going anywhere. More than 70 people quietly listened Wednesday night as the Wilson Area School Board unanimously voted in favor of Protzman staying on as band director. In fact, Protzman gave the board a list of demands at a meeting last week. The demands are now band policy. Protzman, in his sixth year as director, withdrew his resignation. "It's been a strange three weeks," Protzman said after the meeting in the high school auditorium. "I wouldn't say I enjoyed the notoriety.

For Wilson Area High School band director Ed Protzman, music is his life. Protzman, 33, not only instructs all 125 band members but also teaches percussion ensemble Mondays at Albright College in Reading and spends a month each summer in Alberta, Canada, studying band conducting. "I love what I do, especially when it comes to working with (Wilson ) students," he said Friday. "I spend between 12 to 14 hours a day for the students, trying to teach them what I know. I don't consider what I do just a job but time well spent."

Dieruff High School's marching band and wind ensemble will have some out- of-town company today during practice for the Florida World International Festival of Music in Orlando in four weeks. Joining the Dieruff players will be instructors of the Windsor High School Band from Windsor, N.Y., and one or two clinicians from West Chester University. Rick Hilborn, band director at Dieruff, and the Windsor band director attended college together.

George W. Kinsley IV, 44, of Mertztown died Wednesday, June 25, in University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock. He was a music teacher in the East Penn School District, where he was the band director for Emmaus High School. Before that he was a band director for the Mid-Valley School District for 18 years. Born in Long Beach, Calif., he was son of George W. Kinsley III of Langhorne, Bucks County, and Julia F. (Miller) Kinsley of Willow Grove. He played for several different musical organizations.

To the Editor: I want to acknowledge the hard work and efforts of the band director for the Bethlehem Area School District's Broughal Middle School Band, Ms. Joyce Dawley. My children have been involved with Broughal's band for the last three years and it has been a positive and rewarding experience for them. Jonice Knecht Bethlehem

The second annual Lehigh Valley Invitational Band Competition will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Parkland High School stadium. The program is co-hosted by Northwestern Lehigh and Parkland band programs. A total of 12 bands from Pennsylvania and New Jersey will perform. Bands will compete in three divisions determined by total marching unit size. Participating bands include Nazareth, Delaware Valley Regional, Florence Township, Hackettstown, Northern Lehigh, Blue Mountain, Tamaqua, Roxbury, Berwick and Lehighton.

The following area students were nominated for the McDonald's All-American High School Band: - Andria McFetridge, a piccolo player in the Whitehall High School Band, nominated by her band director, Rick Hilboin. - Matthew Schwenk and Lisa Reph, both alto saxophone players in the Catasauqua High School Band, nominated by their director, Richard Milne. - Kathy Nester, alto saxophone, and Kristin Tirpak, clarinet player, both for the Panther Valley High School Band, nominated by their director, Joseph Ogozalek.

Seven students from Indian Crest Middle School and 11 students from Indian Valley Middle School were chosen to be members of the Bux-Mont Intermediate Honors Band festival and concert to be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Pennridge Lower High School auditorium in Perkasie. The band includes seventh- and eighth-grade band students from Pennridge, North Penn, Souderton and Quakertown school districts. Selected by Indian Crest band director Ed Etkins were Le Tang, saxophone; Sarah Bauman and Sarah Clemens, flute; Monica Brandis and Matt Musselman, clarinet; Ryan Dorn, trombone and Kyle Crouthamel, trumpet.

The Northwestern High School band placed second in this year's U.S. Coast Guard Academy competition Saturday in New London, Conn. Its score was 81.35. The band also won best percussion and best color guard trophies. The band had the highest overall visual score of the 17 units competing. Andrew R. Gekoskie is the band director. It was the first time the band was invited to the competition.